The theme for todays episode is clear: VENOMOUS BITCHINESS CARRIED TO THE EXTREME!
For those of us who thought Gayatri was just a little bit nasty, and actually at heart a tolerable woman ... for those of us who thought she was more stupid than genuinely malicious ...today we have to eat our words. She was a complete out and out deplorable piece of work, ill-intentioned and irrational, and in my opinion, a disgrace on all women!
Gayatri today was like a woman desperate to show a display of personal power against a child at least 50 years younger than her. Even if she wanted to show herself off in this household as high and mighty she could have chosen Aarti on whom to vent directly rather than try to hurt Aarti via the child.
All her arguments that she is doing this for the good of the child and the family, and her boasts about having brought up three sons come to nothing when we see that she is actually trying to hit at Aarti via the child Ansh. It is not so much Ansh who has needled her, it looks like Gayatri has an axe to grind with Aarti that is breaking out uncontrollably as hatred towards Ansh.
Let's try to see why Gayatri behaved the way she did ... She has carried out this punishment of Ansh for what crime exactly? Because he stuck a pin into Yash and afterwards apologised and was accepted for it? Because he turned up late for learning the slokas when she had not even told him when to come and learn? Because he refused to do the uthak-baithak and ran around the house? Because if she spares Ansh then all the daughters-in-law will stop respecting her domination?
Its hard to believe that any woman, much less a mother of three and a grandmother of four can behave like this. Gayatri herself knows she has taken things to giddy limits. She is clearly afraid that if her husband comes home and sees what she has done, she will be totally lacerated by him in scathing language. She knows that Yash will not approve of her methods. That's why she has unlocked the door before the Casanova comes home and is now trying to intimidate Aarti from telling Yash anything!
Beyond just cursing Gayatri today for what she has done, I am curious as to why the producers and storywriters of the serial made her character carry out all this miserable action today. What can be the story value of this whole episode where the mother-in-law is driven to such a degree of venomousness as to take out her ire against a small child?
When I think about that macro picture, I get the feeling that just as today Gayatri has fallen to such depths of personal power-mongering, to the same extent a huge showdown is on the cards for her in the very near future. Whenever things swing too far to any extreme, its not long before the exact opposite forces start acting and the person who thought herself beyond everybody else and beyond all reasonableness gets humbled in the very presence of the people she tried to dominate.
I am personally looking forward to the future episode that will soon come as a counterpoint to today's episode: a day when Gayatri will be shown her place by Aarti, who finally breaks out of self-restraint with a mighty explosion of anger and righteous indignation. I want to soon see the day when Gayatri will have to face the consequences of her unbridled lust for ruling her daughters-in-law with an iron hand.
For the moment though I have eight questions I'd like tomorrow's episode to cover:
1. I want to see what and how much Aarti tells Yash about this episode, or indeed if she says anything at all!
2. I want to see if Yash is intuitive enough to sense the disquiet in the home and make his own enquiries as to what has happened ...
3. I want to see if Palak or Payal or Vidhi or Paridi manage to get the information about today's happenings across to Yash via maybe Pankaj or Pratik (even if Aarti does not tell Yash anything)
4. Once Yash gets to know what happened I want to see what he does about the stuation. Merely cuddling Ansh and saying a small sharp word to his mother will not be sufficient for me. I am dying to see if Yash can be more of a man than that and be able to unleash his personal authority in this house. He has as much responsibility for Ansh as Aarti does, having brought him into this house by his own intervention. Ansh has also apologised to Yash for the pin episode and why he should then continue to be punished more and more for the same crime needs to be the question Yash asks.
5. I want to see what Yash does about Payal and Palak, their antagonism to Aarti and Ansh and their carry-tale behaviour ... when there are adults who encourage kids to carry tales about each other, kids will squeal about each other. But that does not mean that Payal and Palak can be allowed to grow up into "Ansh-sneaks" knowing that the grandmother and her hatred towards Ansh is a soft target.
6. I want to see if the Casanova gets to know anything at all, and if so what he does about it ...more than ever, I want to hear him tearing up his wife!
7. I want to see how Gayatri behaves. Although today she has derived the satisfaction of calling the day her own, in a strange way she now will live in the eternal fear that either Yash or the Casanova may come to know what she has done. So by doing what she did, she has actually played into the hands of Aarti who commands the power to let out the miserable secret any time ...
8. Most of all, I want to see what Aarti does ... I am tired of watching her kowtow to a woman such as Gayatri, with neither the education nor the wisdom to behave with the grace her age demands. Will Aarti just remain a crybaby, trying to make Ansh feel better superficially with a few comfort lies, or will Aarti become a tigress refusing to put up with any more of all this? I am afraid if Aarti does nothing my opinion of her will be as low as my opinion of Gayatri.
Edited by skanda12 - 13 years ago